Dec. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2199

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK BREBNER

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Kaitangata.

W. C. WALKER.

Visiting Justices appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

HENRY CAMERON GILLESPIE, Esq., J.P., and
JAMES RENSHAW, Esq, J.P.,

to be Visiting Justices of H.M. Police Gaol at Thames.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Justice.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Arai Road Board, County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1899.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Arai Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER.

ARAI ROAD BOARD.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers in the Tokonui Special District, taken on Saturday, the 4th day of November, 1899, upon a proposal by the Arai Road Board to raise a loan of £1,200, in terms of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the construction of the Tokonui Road, the following votes were recorded:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 9, capable of exercising 17 votes: Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 5, exercising 11 votes; number of ratepayers who voted against the proposal, nil.

As a majority of the ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal, and the number so voting exercised more than one-half of the votes that can be exercised by the whole number of ratepayers, I hereby declare the proposal to be carried.

C. J. PARKER,
Chairman, Arai Road Board.

Te Arai, 9th November, 1899.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Clutha County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1899.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Clutha County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

T. THOMPSON.

COUNTY OF CLUTHA.

THE following is the result of the poll taken on the 14th September, 1899, on the proposal to borrow £3,000, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for the purpose of metalling roads within the Pomahaka Riding:—

Number of ratepayers on the roll, 109, representing 168 votes: Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 102, representing 66 ratepayers; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 14, representing 6 ratepayers.

As a majority of the ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal, and the number so voting are entitled to more than one-half of the votes that can be exercised by the whole number of ratepayers within the Pomahaka Riding, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

JOHN CUMMING,
Chairman, Clutha County Council.

Clutha County Offices,
Balclutha, 22nd September, 1899.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Mauriceville County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM GRAY

to be the person to make up electors’ rolls for the Ridings of West and East Mauriceville, in the County of Mauriceville, as constituted under “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Mauriceville County Act, 1899”; also to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of members of the Council of the said county; and also to be Clerk of the Mauriceville County Council for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting thereof.

W. C. WALKER.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

W. C. WALKER.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through the Pukengahu Block, Ngaiere Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in August, 1899, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrant dated the 17th June, 1898.

SCHEDULE.
WINGROVE ROAD.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 18th day of November, 1899.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through the Pukengahu Block, Ngaiere Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was,